At present it is estimated that marijuana`s LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.

darkmagic`s story is crap..trust me if you could ever o.d. on pot..me or one of my friends certainly would have over the years..the only time i saw a guy go down was once with hash that was laced with opium

"Lethal dose"? I`m sorry, but there`s no such thing, someone lied to you. Yes, even doctors have jumped on the "demon weed" bandwagon, spouting off the nonsense about how bad it is, without a shred of proof. The government does their best to hide it, but word has gotten out about the tests performed by the Navy years ago. They tried their best to find something "bad" about marijuana, and failed completely. The results of those tests were, not surprisingly, never widely released to the public, because of all the embarrassment it would`ve caused the government.

Does anyone here (besides me) even know why marijuana is illegal in the US? Its got nothing to do with the "narcotic" effects. Its all about profits. Back in the early days, late 1700- early 1800`s, cotton was a major crop, and source of profit, in the fledgling USA. Hemp, the "marijuana plant", is also a source of thread/cloth producing fibers, and thus a direct competitor to cotton. Thus, hemp was outlawed, due to lobbying by the enormous farms of the day, and not due to its narcotic properties. In the 1960`s, due to the "drug problem" in America`s youth, the government started using the old legislation to try to stop its use. Doubt me? Go look at the legislation concerning marijuana. Nowhere in the laws is it illegal to use, smoke, vaporize, eat, etc., marijuana. Instead, its illegal to possess it. If you could figure out a way to smoke weed without being in "possession" of it, you could stand and thumb your nose at the authorities while you t

[quote] the key word is `lifestyle`. the lifestyle associated with daily hamburger ingestion would also hurt any athletic potential. [/quote] I smoke marijuana on a daily basis, yet I`m still very productive; I had two publications last year alone, and it would have been three if one of the other authors would have hurried up a bit. Wasted potential my ass.

I wish they would stop with the dumb drugs ads- factless scaremongering doesn`t work. Give kids the facts and let them work it out themselves. Lying to them is a really bad idea, does more harm in the long run.

@SarahofBorg, the key word is `lifestyle`. the lifestyle associated with daily hamburger ingestion would also hurt any athletic potential. @RubinRybnik, i know you are trolling but do you really believe pot cannot be abused? does anyone think that regular bonging sessions are what helped phelps win those medals?